As the politicians say, it was an "unintended consequence". I saved her a trip south I guess. Flew in behind the drake that also fell. I don't have pics of last nights hunt, where I also shot a hen so be prepared gang.

I don't have a pic of you shooting the hen last night either, but I believe it went something like this, four guys saying hen, hen hen, don't shoot. Followed by you saying I don't give a crap what it is I'm shooting it. On the plus side I was glad it was the only bird you killed all afternoon without somebody else cleaning up after your poor shooting because I sure as hell wouldn't have followed up on her for you.

Any of you guys use Armenian back oil/grease as hair gel? MTMallard is thinking of opening a shop in Hamilton & can squegee a months supply out of 1 Hanes white undershirt...ALL NATURAL! Should be a hit amongst all the liberal doucher hippies in Missoula.

Sidebar: been staring at my decoy trailer all day crying inside, this blows! Stoked to go hunt Arkansas the last wknd of Jan but not stoked to see how many birds this front brings into MT next week. How can we seriously implement a split or start later than Oct 1st?

Guessing we are going to be covered up in birds next week. Probably head out one day and do some filming. Bought a brand new snow cover this year and despite hunting waterfowl of some sort for 87 day's this season I never even opened the package.

In all honesty Jason, thanks for the invite. It was a blast. Had a great time, with great guys, in a beautiful spot. Nothing like kicking back in a layout blind looking at the snow covered mountains with ducks coming in, listening to a loud highball call cut through the air, followed by "Dammit is it necessary to scream at the ducks when they are in the damn hole?"............

To say I get excited is an understatement. When I invite people and I want them to have a good shoot (since two of them drove over four hours to get there) I try to make it happen. I guess I may need to reconsider what a good shoot is, but it was stress level delta for me. Ya Ray cleaned up a pile of birds for me, that is for sure. I shot the hen out of frustration, and it happened exactly as he said. However, I may have shot a few more birds had the "incoming missile" siren/alarm not been going off in our hole. Shoulda, woulda, coulda, we got 43 (wait 42 one ran away) in two quick hunts one mile from my house, despite it all, with the Bitterroot mountains as a backdrop, and 5k birds working the next corn field. Pretty cool.

I was going to edit my last post. I knew it was way to soon for a Pete pic. Ray, was he holding that Hen hostage or something?Looks like a situation for SEAL team 6. I have a feeling the Hen didn't make it.Damn those Alhenna terrorists.